The 13th KIIT International Chess Festival 2022 takes place from 22nd to 29th May 2022 at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The event is played in 3 categories: A, B (U1900) and C (U1600), with more than 900 participants and the total prize fund of ₹2500000 (~30.000 euros).
The A category attracted 175 entries who will battle it out in 10 rounds, swiss system. The top seeds are GM Farrukh Amonatov, GM Luka Paichadze, and GM Alexei Fedorov.
Starting rank list of players – 13th KIIT Chess Festival A category:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Amonatov Farrukh | TJK | 2622 |
| 2 | GM | Paichadze Luka | GEO | 2567 |
| 3 | GM | Fedorov Alexei | BLR | 2529 |
| 4 | GM | Savchenko Boris | RUS | 2524 |
| 5 | GM | Aleksandrov Aleksej | BLR | 2492 |
| 6 | IM | Nikitenko Mihail | BLR | 2479 |
| 7 | GM | Mirzoev Azer | AZE | 2476 |
| 8 | GM | Stupak Kirill | BLR | 2440 |
| 9 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | BAN | 2431 |
| 10 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2420 |
| 11 | IM | Azaladze Shota | GEO | 2420 |
| 12 | IM | Nitin S. | IND | 2399 |
| 13 | IM | Gusain Himal | IND | 2396 |
| 14 | IM | Audi Ameya | IND | 2389 |
| 15 | GM | Karthikeyan P. | IND | 2361 |
| 16 | IM | Abdyjapar Asyl | KGZ | 2346 |
| 17 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2337 |
| 18 | IM | Konguvel Ponnuswamy | IND | 2331 |
| 19 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | IND | 2327 |
| 20 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | IND | 2308 |
| 21 | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | IND | 2275 |
| 22 | IM | Saravana Krishnan P. | IND | 2269 |
| 23 | IM | Sangma Rahul | IND | 2232 |
| 24 | GM | Ziatdinov Raset | USA | 2224 |
| 25 | Baivab Mishra | IND | 2219 | |
| 26 | Dhananjay S | IND | 2218 | |
| 27 | CM | Nayak Rajesh | IND | 2179 |
| 28 | Alekhya Mukhopadhyay | IND | 2162 | |
| 29 | Rohit S | IND | 2141 | |
| 30 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2116 |
| 31 | WGM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | IND | 2098 |
| 32 | Santu Mondal | IND | 2097 | |
| 33 | Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi | IND | 2074 | |
| 34 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2071 |
| 35 | Praloy Sahoo | IND | 2065 | |
| 36 | Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U | IND | 2064 | |
| 37 | Rakesh Kumar Nayak | IND | 2053 | |
| 38 | IM | Sahu Sekhar Chandra | IND | 2050 |
| 39 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2042 |
| 40 | Garv Rai | IND | 2033 | |
| 41 | IM | Weerawardane Romesh | SRI | 2027 |
| 42 | Krishnan Ritvik | IND | 2023 | |
| 43 | Harini S. | IND | 2021 | |
| 44 | CM | Mayank Chakraborty | IND | 2015 |
| 45 | Chakrabarty Debasis | IND | 2008 | |
| 46 | IM | Hegde Ravi Gopal | IND | 2001 |
| 47 | Shaik Sumer Arsh | IND | 1999 | |
| 48 | CM | Kavinda Akila | SRI | 1996 |
| 49 | Pattnayak Nilsu | IND | 1992 | |
| 50 | AGM | Sahib Singh | IND | 1991 |
| 51 | AFM | Pawar Harshit | IND | 1961 |
| 52 | Atul Kumar | IND | 1953 | |
| 53 | Koustav Chakraborty | IND | 1945 | |
| 54 | Priyankara Chamil | SRI | 1938 | |
| 55 | Ankit Ray | IND | 1932 | |
| 56 | Soham Dey | IND | 1928 | |
| 57 | Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni | IND | 1912 | |
| 58 | Koustuv Dash | IND | 1910 | |
| 59 | Soni Krishan | IND | 1904 | |
| 60 | Tarun V | IND | 1903 | |
| 61 | Ayush Jha | IND | 1900 | |
| 62 | Adireddy Arjun | IND | 1898 | |
| 63 | WCM | Bristy Mukherjee | IND | 1887 |
| 64 | Mahendra Teja Mekala | IND | 1871 | |
| 65 | WFM | Baghirova Khatun | AZE | 1866 |
| 66 | Aditya P Melani | IND | 1855 | |
| 67 | Jodunath Biswas | BAN | 1852 | |
| 68 | Meenal Gupta | IND | 1845 | |
| 69 | Velpula Sarayu | IND | 1845 | |
| 70 | Ghosh Samriddhaa | IND | 1844 | |
| 71 | Tiwari Shivansh | IND | 1838 | |
| 72 | Jaiveer Mahendru | IND | 1832 | |
| 73 | Swayham P Das | IND | 1825 | |
| 74 | Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar | IND | 1816 | |
| 75 | Sunyasakta Satpathy | IND | 1811 | |
| 76 | Tamhankar Siddhant | IND | 1802 | |
| 77 | Setumadhav Yellumahanthi | IND | 1801 | |
| 78 | Daksh Goyal | IND | 1795 | |
| 79 | Smaraki Mohanty | IND | 1794 | |
| 80 | Md Bashiq Imrose | IND | 1792 | |
| 81 | Bagwe Gaurang | IND | 1789 | |
| 82 | Gavi Siddayya | IND | 1789 | |
| 83 | Jain Adi | IND | 1788 | |
| 84 | Singh Neha | IND | 1780 | |
| 85 | Samal Ansuman | IND | 1776 | |
| 86 | Rupam Mukherjee | IND | 1768 | |
| 87 | Sachi Jain | IND | 1768 | |
| 88 | Hriday Panchal | IND | 1766 | |
| 89 | Nirnay Garg | IND | 1755 | |
| 90 | Priansh Das | IND | 1754 | |
| 91 | Jain Kushagra | IND | 1749 | |
| 92 | Soboleva Anastasia | RUS | 1744 | |
| 93 | Sriansh Das | IND | 1731 | |
| 94 | Liyanage Pesandu Rashmitha | SRI | 1730 | |
| 95 | Kanishka S | IND | 1723 | |
| 96 | Rout Yashita | IND | 1718 | |
| 97 | Boramanikar Tanisha S | IND | 1716 | |
| 98 | Anish Rooj | IND | 1711 | |
| 99 | Shounak Mazumder | IND | 1709 | |
| 100 | Bajaj Prakhar | IND | 1699 | |
| 101 | Arnab Debnath | IND | 1691 | |
| 102 | Shadhursshaan R | IND | 1690 | |
| 103 | Nayak Sajan Kumar | IND | 1681 | |
| 104 | Badamundi Tapan | IND | 1663 | |
| 105 | Anushka Gupta | IND | 1658 | |
| 106 | WCM | Chinnam Vyshnavi | IND | 1657 |
| 107 | Mrinmoy Rajkhowa | IND | 1652 | |
| 108 | Darsh Shetty | IND | 1645 | |
| 109 | Harshit Ranjan Sahu | IND | 1645 | |
| 110 | Ritabrata Chakraborty | IND | 1639 | |
| 111 | Shaati Majumder | IND | 1631 | |
| 112 | Sathvik Adiga | IND | 1607 | |
| 113 | Daaevik Wadhawan | IND | 1603 | |
| 114 | Aagam Aditya E | IND | 1600 | |
| 115 | Reyan Md. | IND | 1590 | |
| 116 | Rajanya Datta | IND | 1589 | |
| 117 | Akshath Sinha | IND | 1580 | |
| 118 | Sinthia Sarkar | IND | 1569 | |
| 119 | Jena Suhana | IND | 1567 | |
| 120 | Kotikalapudi Aditya Krishna | USA | 1566 | |
| 121 | Sayandeep Roy | IND | 1565 | |
| 122 | Mummana Venkata Ruthvik | IND | 1543 | |
| 123 | Kalyani Sirin | IND | 1542 | |
| 124 | Panda Priyabrata | IND | 1538 | |
| 125 | Vakcheri Mohitha | IND | 1534 | |
| 126 | Subhrajit Dey | IND | 1528 | |
| 127 | AFM | Suriya S V | IND | 1500 |
| 128 | Mahith Giridhar | IND | 1497 | |
| 129 | Aarav Sinha | IND | 1488 | |
| 130 | Alluri Bhaskara Ratna Shanmukha Reddy | IND | 1478 | |
| 131 | Ayushman Mohanty | IND | 1476 | |
| 132 | Avigyan Ghosh | IND | 1475 | |
| 133 | Swara Lakshmi S Nair | IND | 1472 | |
| 134 | Arshiya Das | IND | 1456 | |
| 135 | Uddipan Roy | IND | 1453 | |
| 136 | Eshan Bhattacharjee | IND | 1440 | |
| 137 | Vignesh Advaith Vemula | IND | 1437 | |
| 138 | Ashvath Mittal | IND | 1419 | |
| 139 | Srijak Sengupta | IND | 1413 | |
| 140 | Mayukh Majumder | IND | 1406 | |
| 141 | Keerthana B | IND | 1403 | |
| 142 | Suryapranjal Indrajeet S P | IND | 1401 | |
| 143 | Shubh Kapur | IND | 1396 | |
| 144 | Saparya Ghosh | IND | 1394 | |
| 145 | Apaar Saxena | IND | 1391 | |
| 146 | Sani Deshpande | IND | 1388 | |
| 147 | Ujaan Bhattacharya | IND | 1380 | |
| 148 | Andalamala Hemal Varshan | IND | 1376 | |
| 149 | Gairick Saha | IND | 1368 | |
| 150 | Dissanayake D M Madushan Sameera | SRI | 1351 | |
| 151 | Rangeet Majumdar | IND | 1349 | |
| 152 | AIM | Banik Hrishikesh Kumar | IND | 1342 |
| 153 | Shashank K | IND | 1339 | |
| 154 | Soyam Laxmidatt D Sabat | IND | 1336 | |
| 155 | Prishita Gupta | IND | 1326 | |
| 156 | Satyam Sarbajit Mishra | IND | 1324 | |
| 157 | Sri Charan Sandipagu | IND | 1324 | |
| 158 | Oishik Kundu | IND | 1318 | |
| 159 | Sevitha Viju M | IND | 1312 | |
| 160 | Arushi Srichandan | IND | 1292 | |
| 161 | Nithik Reddy Bhavanam | IND | 1285 | |
| 162 | Raina Das Gupta | IND | 1266 | |
| 163 | Nargis Kaumudi | BAN | 1255 | |
| 164 | AFM | Mithun Pranav | IND | 1252 |
| 165 | Lasani H Kothari | IND | 1244 | |
| 166 | Abhishek Shankar | IND | 1230 | |
| 167 | Vatsal Singla | IND | 1223 | |
| 168 | Kaumina M Yashika | SRI | 1175 | |
| 169 | AFM | Tanishq Saini | IND | 1170 |
| 170 | Jahaann Goel | IND | 1168 | |
| 171 | Chatterjee Anantyoya | IND | 1161 | |
| 172 | Anishka Pandey | IND | 1138 | |
| 173 | Makam Rishi Manohar | IND | 0 | |
| 174 | Omkar Sameer Talwalkar | IND | 0 | |
| 175 | Saswat Subhajyoti | IND | 0 | |
